Current Affairs MCQ- October 2018 (Part-3)

This set of Monthly Current Affairs October 2018 (Part-3) contains 20 multiple choice questions. One mark for each correct answer. No negative marking for incorrect answer.

1. Nitin Gadkari laid the foundation of India's largest Dry Dock, the dry dock will be established in:

a) Cochin Shipyard

b) Hindustan Shipyard, Visakhapatnam

c) Goa Shipyard

d) Naval Dockyard, Bombay

2. Who has become the first female president of Ethiopia?

a) Azeb Mesfin

b) Senedu Gebru

c) Sahle-Work Zewde

d) None of these

3. Who has won the 2018 World Billiards Championship title held in Leeds of UK?

a) Saurav Kothari

b) Pankaj Advani

c) Steve Mizerek

d) None of these

4. The ‘Vigilance Awareness Week’ is celebrated in the birth week of which freedom fighter?

a) Bipin Chandra Pal

b) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

c) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

d) Gopalkrishna Gokhale

The week in which 31st October, the birthday of late Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel falls is observed as Vigilance Awareness Week.

5. Which of the following bank has been authorized by the Union Govt for the sale of electoral bond?

a) SIDBI

b) PNB

c) SBI

d) Allahabad Bank

An Electoral Bond is just like a promissory note that will be payable to bearer on demand and free of interest. It can be purchased by a citizen of India or anybody incorporated in India.

6. The first ever North East Olympic Games was held in Imphal Manipur, the game was organized by:

a) Indian Olympic Association

b) Assam Olympic Association

c) Manipur Olympic Association

d) None of these

7. Who was appointed as Director of Enforcement Directorate (ED) recently?

a) Sanjay Kumar Mishra

b) Rakesh Asthana

c) Alok Verma

d) R.N. Ravi

8. Pakistan has announced that it would send a human to space for the first time in 2022 with the help of which country?

a) Russia

b) Saudi Arabia

c) US

d) China

9. India is building the World's Highest Railway Line, the proposed railway line will be constructed in which of the following route:

a) Siliguri-Thimphu-Tawang-Mechuka

b) Bilaspur-Manali-Leh

c) Siliguri-Gangtok-Nathula

d) Sri Nagar-Kargil-Leh

Indian Railway has proposed it to be declared a national project. It is the most difficult project undertaken by the railways till date given the terrain over which the tracks have to be laid. And the estimated cost to build this 465 km-line will be Rs 83,360 crore.

10. Which of the following countries hold their first trilateral meeting on Chabahar port project?

a) India, Pakistan & Afghanistan

b) India, Afghanistan & Iraq

c) India, Iran & Afghanistan

d) India, Pakistan & Iran

11. Which of the following is the India’s first engine-less train?

a) Train 18

b) Train 56

c) Train 100

d) None of these

12. Who has been appointed as the new Prime Minister of Sri Lanka?

a) Ranil Wickremesinghe

b) Mahinda Rajapaksa

c) Maithripala Sirisena

d) None of these

Sri Lanka's President Maithripala Sirisena has named his predecessor, Mahinda Rajapaksa, as the country's new prime minister after the collapse of the governing coalition.

13. United Nations Day is observed on:

a) October 24

b) October 26

c) October 31

d) None of these

14. World Polio Day is Observed on:

a) October 24

b) October 25

c) October 29

d) October 30

15. India's first domestic luxury cruise "Angriya" is set to sail from;

a) Mumbai to Goa

b) Chennai to Visakhapatnam

c) Goa to Cochin

d) Chennai to Puri

16. Which country has officially opened the world’s longest sea-crossing bridge?

a) Russia

b) US

c) China

d) Qatar

17. Who will be awarded the first World Agriculture Prize instituted by the Indian Council of Food and Agriculture (ICFA)?

a) Temple Grandin

b) M.S. Swaminathan

c) Artturi Ilmari Virtanen

d) None of these

The World Agriculture Prize award will carry a cash reward of $1,00,000.

18. PM Narendra Modi has been awarded the 2018 Seoul Peace Prize, the prize was first honored in:

a) 1945

b) 1975

c) 1990

d) 2000

19. Invest India, the country's investment promotion body, has won the United Nations Award for excellence in promoting investment in which of the following sector?